Getting Started with a Strategy in Workplace Wellbeing (part 2)
In this second part of the episode ‘Getting Started with a Strategy in Workplace Wellbeing’, our conversation with Ciprian Arhire and Bobbi Hartshorne packs a punch on the right wellbeing investments, hyper-personalization of the employee experience and wellbeing strategy best practices. Ciprian’s contacts: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ciprianarhire/ You can listen to the episode also on Apple Podcasts (https://tinyurl.com/wellwise-podcast-apple) […]
Getting Started with a Strategy in Workplace Wellbeing (part 1)
In this episode our guest Ciprian Arhire powerfully illustrates the fundamental importance of having a wellbeing strategy, and aligning your corporate culture to the right values. Hear about Ciprian’s role at CapGemini Invent and CIPD, as well as what he considers to be the core components of wellbeing strategies, while WellWise CWO Bobbi Hartshorne develops […]
Teams in Workplace Wellbeing (Psychological Safety)
In this extra sound bite from Episode 1, our guests take a deep-dive into the topic of psychological safety and its necessity for strong teams and healthy organizations. Both Andy and Bobbi give their take on the role of psychological safety, as well as how leaders and employees can master it. The ability to speak […]
Don’t climb a tree to look for a fish: the risks of inexperienced wellbeing personnel are substantially higher than leaders realise.
One of the biggest and most common mistakes organisations make when embarking on a fresh workplace wellbeing initiative is to put the wrong people at the helm. Many organisations enable wellbeing to become absorbed as a function within the HR team because they’ve made the incorrect assumption that the professionals looking after the people side […]
How much of our investment in employees is lost? And what does cake have to do with it?
Depending on the sector your business operates in, you may spend between 40% to 80% of gross revenues on employee salaries and benefits combined. Salaries alone can account for 18% to 52% of your operating budget, according to the Society for Human Resource Management. At such a HUGE financial cost, to survive and be successful in our businesses, […]
Why do outdated workplace wellbeing approaches feel like catdog?
Ok, ok I’ve given my age away with this one! For those who are not familiar with CatDog, it’s a cartoon about a cat and a dog joined at the hip but often moving in opposite directions and working towards different goals. To all those members of the workplace wellbeing choir, I see you nodding […]
Let’s NOT do the Time Warp again
Rethinking the value of time to our organizations Of all the factors that influence the performance and health of organizations and employees alike, our use of time is both the most holistically impactful and the most frequently overlooked. In this article, I will present my perspective on how our relationship between the concepts of time […]
The importance of management
Amongst the many things we’ve all learnt in recent years, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the important role that middle managers play in overall workplace wellbeing and the ‘squeeze’ that this group faces in terms of managing the wellbeing of their teams and themselves, while simultaneously trying to ensure that deadlines and targets are met. […]